v1.2 [Jan 15, 2015]
Major new features in Victory At Sea 1.2
Kriegsmarine campaign
Can you change history and defeat the combined naval forces of the British Empire and its American allies?
New convoy mechanics have been added - large supply convoys from the US and the British colonies will continually reinforce the mainland unless you can intercept and sink them.
Extra submarine mechanics let you strike and withdraw all the easier by diving out of sight.
Hard and Expert campaign modes
These pit you against more numerous and higher level enemies from the get go. In addition the enemy supply lines will be more resilient to your attacks.
You'll also have to be more careful with your fleet as repairs can only be carried out by using up friendly port supplies. Similarly new ships can only be requisitioned from well supplied ports, with battlecruisers and battleships requiring a higher level, well stocked port.
Other changes:
- Added gameplay option to disable planes in night battles.
- Added gameplay option to show A/B and X/Y turret groups as separate weapons.
- Hard/Expert mode captains must purchase landing craft from the shipyard before engaging in port attacks.
- Deep dive mode added for submarines, unable to fire torpedoes but harder to detect. Submarines in deep dive can retreat from the battlefield after 30s undetected.
- Loose formations - group your ships into a loose formation, no circle/lines just a handy selection.
- Initial load of the shipyard screen should be much much faster.
- Right clicking to fire all weapons will first fire any guns in range/arc, if no guns available will fire torpedoes, if no guns or torpedos available will fire depth charges/hedgehogs.
- Ally ships not under your control are faded out on tactical view to reduce confusion.
- Added the type VII U-Boat
- AI destroyers in formation will now deviate from formation to chase subs.
- Increased chance of crits from torpedoes, slightly.
- Increased speed of AA fire.
- Some criticals were incorrectly doing too much crew damage, fixed.
- Enemy ships will now group into formations.
- Friendly AI submarines will deploy nearer the enemy
- Crippled submarines will correctly surface from deep dive and no longer start battles submerged or able to be positioned anywhere.
--- Additional changes in 1.2.1 ---
Small patch to fix some issues that have cropped up in 1.2
- A couple of bugs that were impacting the end game missions have been fixed
- Wilhelmshaven now has enough supply to allow purchase of top tier battleships for the axis campaign in HARD/EXPERT
- Mission fleets should no longer spawn from beaches, patrol missions should no longer be given for beach ports and the accompanying infini-fleet-bug fixed.
- Ranking up way past the top level no longer results in -ve XP.
- The German resistance in Harlingen has been nerfed (port now changes hands when captured by allies)
- Ships added to the shipyard for the appropriate nations:
(GB) Scott Destroyer Escort, E/F Destroyer
(NL) De Ruyter Cruiser, Sumatra Cruiser, Van Galen Destroyer,
(JP) Shiratsuyu Destroyer, Shokaku Carrier
(US) Northampton Cruiser
v1.0 [Sep 22, 2014]
- Smoke screens added: ships may burn oil to create a trailing smokescreen. Lying between two ships, this will obstruct visibility, resulting in highly inaccurate attacks to the other side of the smokescreen - however, a ship possessing radar is unaffected and may fire as normal. An otherwise-obscured ship that is visible to radar will be indicated with an icon.
- Bomber behaviour and accuracy should now be unaffected by framerate.
- Fixed a bug where aircraft would get in an endless stalemate when trying to get into a dogfight.
- Fixed a bug where planes would dump their payload in the sea after a dogfight.
- Fixed a bug where planes would not circle correctly when defending their own home aircraft carrier.
- Fixed a bug that resulted in the player captain being killed, and NPC captains getting a bunch of clones. The player captain should also not be automatically reassigned to new ships.
- Stopped the retreat indicator from showing after a ship's retreat order is cancelled.
- Ships can now retreat in custom convoy/blockade scenarios.
- Fixed a bug where torpedo bombs do damage while still arming.
- AI on ships with defend orders now target enemy ships more sensibly.
- Custom key bindings are now saved between game sessions.
- Subs now surface and submerge at a slower rate, and now have a cooldown on surfacing/submerging. Submarine AI doesn't forget how to turn when it is firing in range.
- Mini-maps now have borders.
-Custom battle fleet selection no longer always clears itself when changing fleet settings/country. Now it will only clear the selected ships if the country filter is changed to be enabled.
- Gun reloading sound only plays when currently focused ship is under manual control.
- The Yamato-class model has been fixed to look more accurate.
- The Independence-class model no longer sails around backwards.
- War bond reward for taking a port is now proportional to the port's defence level.
- Torpedoes now take longer to reload.
- End game landing mission defence fleets no longer replenish their ships if the player fails to capture the port.
- Missions where you must search for a lost ship no longer have ships so lost they are in the middle of dry land. Lost allied ship missions now have a pulsing UI representing the wide search area, and son't tell you to search for the wrong ship
- Fixed a case where custom battles could start up half way between tactical mode and follow ship mode.
- All achievements should now be both working and possible to get.
- Ships should now unlock slower in the campaigns.
- Aircraft no longer respawn until you enter a friendly port to repair and resupply.
- Option added to restrict purchasable ships only to those originating from the player's navy.
- Shipyard can now be filtered by ship type.
- Game no longer gets you to defend an enemy port from an allied attack fleet!
- Fixed warbonds not being awarded at HQ if you saved in port then reloaded before getting the reward.
- Littorio-class battleship now has a torpedo belt.
- Increased warbonds earned for sinking enemies.
- Ship stat UIs now show whether ships have armoured decks, radar, and torpedo belts. System status icons now show the integrity of these systems.
- Uranium escort ship no longer spawns far ahead of the player's fleet in combat to get itself blown to bits.
- Player ships should only retreat if they are explicitly told to do so or if they are both under manual control and the ship is the currently focused on ship.
- Ships should now stay in the arena in the relevant scenarios.
- Ships now follow player's commands properly when in a blockade mission.
- Subs now explode like other ships when killed on the surface.
- Removed the less than entirely useful Chitose Mk I ships from the campaign.
- Convoy duty battles should no longer display "Victory" or "Defeat" incorrectly.
- AI is a lot more cautious about firing torpedoes, should prevent most friendly fire.
- Smoke and fire should not vanish so abruptly after being submerged. Smoke particles updated.
- Deployable fleet limit in both campaign and custom battles increased to 20.
- Optimisations on ships, planes, physics, and particles.
- Custom battles sort enemies by point value by default now (same as the player list)
- Fixed a bug where a sound could occasionally play much louder than intended.
- Submarine engine noises stop whilst submerged.
